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This Hakka boy called Ah Yuan was born in a little Hakka village called Sayap. When the Emergency started Ah Yuan was only ten years old. His whole family was relocated by the British to live in a small Hakka town called Pusing (布先). The whole village, Sayap, was demolished by the British Colonial Authorities. Actually the Emergency in Malaya was a war between the British and the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). The best reference books about the Emergency are Dr Han Suyin's "....And The Rain My Drink" and the Australian author Harry Miller's "Menance in Malaya" and the "Jungle War In Malaya".

At the high of the Emergency he (Ah Yuan) was just in a Chinese primary school in Siputeh Overseas Chinese Primary Achool. During this period his adopted hometown (Pusing) was nicknamed "Little Yanan" (小延安 Yanan which was Mao Zedong's headquarters from 1936 to 1947) by the British, in SHAAXI Province)

At the start of the Second World War, the Pusing Hakka Laos (客家老) were the first in Malaya to organize "The Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (M.P.A.J.A. or 馬來亞人民抗日軍 see Shen Mi Lai Te by Guo Ren De 神秘萊特 by 郭仁德 : first book in Chinese about MCP published in 1999). When the Japanese army were marching down from the north of Malaya the British retreated to Ipoh. Our Hakka folks from Sayap Village and Pusing went to Ipoh (怡保) and collected some weapons abandoned by the British. With these weapons these Hakka Laos established the first Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japnese Army (MPAJA) base in Malaya. Their base was not in their own hometown but another little Hakka town called Chemor (朱毛) about 20 kilometers north of Pusing - please refer to the map below.

Ah Yuan's third uncle named Yue Rong (月榮) was not involved with the M.P.A.J.A., but he was with the British Army. Eventually Yue Rong was retreated to Singapore with the Britsh (please see the book byChung Yoon-Ngan about his family in Malaya) trying to defend Singapore. After a few weeks attacking Singapore the British decided to surrender to the Japanese. Before the fall of Singapore seven Australian soldiers decided to sail to Darwin by a small fishing boat to Sumatra Island. They wanted Ah Yuan uncle to go with them because his uncle spoke Malay which is same as Indonesian language. Having arrived in Sumatra from Singapore they walked across to the east side of Sumatra. None of the Australian soldiers spoke Indonesian language. They decided to take Yue Rong along with them because Yue Rong spoke Malay which is a similar language to Indonesian. The eight of them sailed many days to Sumatra and then walked many days to the east side of the Sumatra Island. Then they bought a little sampan from the local fishermen. They sailed to Darwin. They succeeded to land in Darwin, Australia.

While in Darwin Yue Rong had nothing much to do. All he wanted to do was to go back to Malaya to fight the Japanese. However the whole of Malaya and Singapore were occupied by the Japanese. He heard that there was an anti-Japanese British Commando in Ceylon called Force 136. The members of this organization were the British and the Chinese Malayan. He decided to join them. So he waited and waited for a merchant ship going to India as Ceylon was a part of India. Finally there was a merchant ship sailing for India. He paid the ship Captain for the ship passage and went to India.

From India he went to Ceylon Island. He was allowed to join Force 136 because his father (Ah Yuan's grandfather) was a gold digger in the end of 19th and had lived in Australia for 26 years as a gold digger. But Yue Rong was born and grew up in Malaya. Ah Yuan's grandfather went back to China to marry his grandmother a Hakka Chinese woman Under the WHITE Australia Policy his grandfather was not allowed to take his grand mother back to live in Australia (Two Wongs [two yellows] cannot produce a WHITE baby) that was the Australian WHITE policy during those time. So Yue Rong's father went to Malaya to dig for tin-ore. That was how Yue Rong was born and grew up and educated in Malaya. With this background Yue Yong was allowed to join Force 136 (see The Jungle is Neutral by Colonel F. Spencer Chapman).

After a few years training in jungle warfare, in 1944, with two British Officers Yue Rong parachuted back to Malaya to the vicinity of a town called Kampar (please see the map as above). Their mission was to train the M.P.A.J.A how to destroy the communication in Malaya before the invasion of the British under the command of Admiral Earl Mountbatten. The British wanted to reconquer Malaya from the Japanese

When they landed they could not contact the M.P.A.J.A. because theguerillas knew that someone had informed the Japanese authority abouttheir dropping. Due to this advance information the M.P.A.J.A. were not in the dropping zone to meet them. The M.P.A.J.A. had no ways to contact the Force 136 headquarters in Ceylon. Yue Rong and the British officers tried to trek to Pusing, about 45 kilometers west of Kampar area. They were being pursued by the Japanese soldiers and eventually they were captured near Gopeng about 10 kilometers east of Pusing. The two British officers were treated as prisoners of war and sent to Changi Prison in Siangapore. Yue Rong was treated as a traitor to his country. The Japanese announced the date of the publicly execution of Yue Rong. Yue Rong's eldest brother went to see the execution which was held in the market place in Kampar. No one told Ah Yuan's fate to his poor grandmother.

When the war was over Ah Yuan's grandma was very happy because she thought that her son could be home at any time. When she saw the M.P.A.J.A. guerillas marching down from the hills she told people that it would take sometime for her son to come home from Ceylon with the British. Poor grandma only discovered that her son had died when a British officer came to the house and gave her a British flag with a cheque of few hundred dollars. She did not receive the compensation personally from the British Officer because she fainted on hearing the death of her youngest son death.

When the emergency started Ah Yuan's eldest brother called Yong Long was in the Malayan People's Anti-British Army (M.P.A.B.A 馬來亞人民抗英軍). Ah Yuan's father managed to convince Yong Long to go back to China to fight for Mao Zedong to liberate China. Yong Long agreed and went to China. However, when he arrived in China the Chinese civil war was over. He studied for a few years and he volunteered to fight in Korea. He survived the Korean War and became a government official in charge of the forest in Hui Lai county in Guangdong province. He stayed and worked there until he died of old age. He had five children and occasionally one of them would visittheir father's birth place.

One day, in 1953, a young friend of Ah Yuan's family friend told his father that his third son called Yuan Sheng (元勝), who was studying in Chung Ling High School, Penang, was among a group of students who were on their way going back to China. The students were leaving by train. Immediately Ah Yuan's second uncle rush to Batu Gajah, about four kilometers from Pusing, railway station to meet his third nephew. But the train already passed Batu Gajah. So his second uncle drove to Kampar hoping he could catch up with the train which carried the students. Indeed he caught up with the train when he arrived in Kampar. He talked to Yuan Sheng in the train and had convinced him to come home to say farewell to all the relatives before he left. None of the family member tried to stop him from going back to China.

The night before Yuan Sheng departure for China Ah Yuan's fathercongregated all the members of the family including members from Ah Yuan uncle's family in the shophouse. His father told them the history of their family. Ah Yuan remembered every one cried when his father told them the history of his parents, how they struggled bringing bring up their children. That night everyone cried to sleep.

The next morning Yuan Sheng decided not to go back to China and hepromised that he would followed his father and became a tin-miner.

At the end of the Emergency (the Emergency ended in 1960) Ah Yuan was a member of the Min Yuen (民運), a unit which feed, clothed and gave information to the M.P.A.B.A. During those time the Pusing Hakka Laos were the sympathizers of the M.P.A.B.A.. When the Emergency ended Ah Yuan had finished his high school education and his father told him not to go to work but work in the mine and learning how to become a tin miner. However, his father was disappointed with him. Occasionally his father wanted to show him how to do such things in the mine. Ah Yuan was no where to be found because he was sitting under a tree reading his books. His father was angry and asked him if he wanted to become a tin miner to follow him to learn. But Ah Yuan said that he was not interested and told his father that he wanted to study and to become a writer. Now his father knew the true. So his father decided to send him to Australia to study, after all his father still had two more sons following him to become tin miners. -------------------------------------------------------------

From my long time of researching from the Western Australia ,I found the old photosof the air drops (at night) by the British air drops sorties to the many Malayan People's Anti - Japapnese military camps. Droped them new weapons an d provision. My third uncle was the unfortunate one who was captured by the Japanese and executed in the public market in Kampare 32 miles from my villahe. My father went there to watch the execution (broken hearted)